Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth John Burnside ‘Philip Hancock’s poems tap a

‘Philip Hancock’s poems tap a deep vein of humiliation – humiliations of place and class and aspiration

ambivalent

by the acclaimed poet

and an often understated tenderness

the magical and mystical

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth John Burnside ‘Philip Hancock’s poems tap aLydia Unsworth's Arthropod bursts open with 'Starlight Express', a long prose poem about protection and harm, containing cannibal flowers, lecherous men, and family dynamics as constellatory and atomised as the poem. Like Selima Hill, Will Harris and Caroline Bird, Unsworth's images and associations are seductive with crystallised mystery 'Knowing is holding a field in your palm'. At its dense core, the collection orbits a divorce and single